Discipline Lead, Social Sciences

Email: kevin.lalor@tudublin.ie

Tel: 01 2205449

Qualifications: BA in Applied Psychology (1991) (UCC); PhD (1997) (UCC); Masters in Development Studies (2002) (UCD)

Engagement activity

ISPCAN (International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect): Chair of Board of Directors (2023-2024).

Member of Stakeholder Advisory Group, ‘Research and data project examining the lives of children in care and adults who were in care as children’, Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (2023-2024).

NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, UK): Member of the Research Ethics Committee (2020 to date).

Member of the expert advisory group, International Statistical Classification on Violence against Children, UNICEF (2022).

Co-chair of the Scientific Committee of the 2021 ISPCAN virtual congress, in partnership with Cismai and Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.

Social Care Ireland, Board member (Director), 2016-2019.

Editorial Board Member, Child abuse and neglect: the international journal and Children, Youth & Environments.

Publications

See  Google Scholar profile & Orcid ID 0000-0002-2875-4678

Research Interests

Current research interests include experiences of adolescence; youth crime and victimisation; child sexual abuse prevalence; comparative perspectives on crime victimization.

Awards

Fáilte Ireland Conference Ambassador Award, 2016

US State Department Programme on Continuing Education, Atlantic Corridors, 2003  

United Nations Graduate Studies Programme1993 

UCC Graduate research scholarship, 1991-1994 

United Nations Graduate Studies Programme, 1993 

Fr. Peter Dempsey Prize, BA (Hons.) in Applied Psychology, UCC, 1991